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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
25 January 2021
Diana Wylie, Professor of History at Boston University, wrote a review of 'The Individual in African History: The Importance of Biography in African Historical Studies' - published in the African Dynamics series and edited by ASCL senior researcher Klaas van Walraven - for H-Net. 'The task of hoisting the complex life of a particular individual onto the level of social significance is indeed difficult', she writes, 'but it lies at the heart of the problem of biography. It is worth doing, as the authors persuasively argue, if we are to make African history familiar and palpable to a wide audience'.
22 January 2021
Islam is an essential feature of the area that encompasses northern Nigeria and southern Niger. Today it assumes new forms in terms of discourses, practices, and modes of dissemination. In order to capture their changing complexity and diversity, regional Islamic dynamics need to be observed form both sides of the Niger-Nigeria border, where religious patterns echo each other but also obey different socio-political injunctions. An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Niger, Nigeria, France and the United Kingdom was set up to conduct this transnational study.
21 January 2021
15 January 2021
After an impressive start, early December, the Africa Knows! conference about knowledge production in and on Africa has resumed on 18 January. With fascinating panels on decolonising knowledge, films screened every evening, a conference magazine and a special blog by Prof. Jonathan Jansen of Stellenbosch University. The conference will last until 24 February. Registration is still possible!
14 January 2021
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